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took off one layer when he was doing some

fishing, and when the Lord had come to him, he

put that clothing back on. This is why we

emphasize two layers of clothing. Now, if you

were wearing animal skins, that's a thicker

clothing and you might get by with one piece of

clothing, but we see in the Scriptures that

people wore an outer layer of clothing and then

an inner layer, what we would call underwear,

what most of us are wearing here this morning.

So the coat was the ordinary garment worn by

both men and women. Now, that doesn't mean

they had exactly the same style, but throughout

the Scriptures, I think that we see that the coat

was the ordinary garment.

I want to read one verse out of Genesis

chapter 2. Verse 25, says, “And they were both

naked, the man and his wife, and were not

ashamed.” This is before the fall when they

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